As the global population is increasingly experiencing the consequences of climate change, awareness of the pressing need for research in GIScience that promotes sustainability is growing. Decarbonising transport and promoting the integration of a wide range of sustainable mobility options is key for net-zero transitions in cities and a recommended intervention in the United Nations New Urban Agenda.

In the past decades, researchers have been using data-driven (and theory-informed) techniques to investigate many of the issues related to accessibility and mobility that hinder a more sustainable transport system, such as level of access to destinations, walkability, bikeability, availability of micro-mobility or shared-transport options among others. While the potential of geospatial data science to uncover accessibility and mobility patterns in cities has been demonstrated, advances in how the environmental, economic and social dimensions interact in the context of sustainable cities, remain. Ensuring equitable accessibility and mobility justice is critical to develop effective and widely acceptable net-zero policies and therefore fundamental to bring about long lasting changes and prevent conflict.

We welcome your participation in two workshops focused on equitable, accessible, and sustainable mobility. These twin workshops aims at bringing to the forefront discussions on how advances in geospatial data science can be leveraged to promote development that balances social, economic and environmental sustainability in transport and mobility to build more equitable neighbourhoods and sustainable communities. This may include new methods and technologies as well as applying existing geospatial technique to uncover how inequalities affect accessibility and mobility based on i.e. gender, income, race etc. Given the interdisciplinary nature of this topic, the workshop welcomes contributions by researchers coming from a wide range of backgrounds in a format that involves both short presentations and guided discussions.

The two workshops are complementary with one in the morning and one in the afternoon (participants can attend one or both). More information on each of these workshops is accessible at the links below:

• Morning: Equitable Accessibility & Sustainable Mobility
• Afternoon: Open Tools for Equitable and Sustainable Accessibility & Mobility Analysis

Submissions on a variety of topics are welcome including, but not limited to:

• Spatial and equity analysis of accessibility
• Mobility justice and sustainability
• Open tools for mobility analysis
• Equity considerations on micromobility and shared mobility
• Sustainable mobility and gender
• Accessibility and sustainable mobility for an ageing society
• New forms of data for the analysis of inequalities and sustainable mobility
• Data bias and sustainable mobility analysis
• Exploring the relationship between accessibility and active travel
• Travel modes and new forms of mobility data
• Inequalities in walkability or bikeability
• Equitable urban design
• Sustainable urban vitality and urban vibrancy

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of short research papers (1500-4000 words) or abstracts (200-500 words) that describe new research ideas aligned with the general theme of the workshops of equitable and sustainable accessibility and mobility. All papers and abstracts will undergo peer-review with accepted papers being published online with a volume DOI (via the Open Science Framework).  Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format to the easychair platform and should follow the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format.  When submitting your paper you will be asked to chose one of the workshops for submission.

Organization

Workshop Chairs

• Grant McKenzie, McGill University, Canada
• Alessia Calafiore, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Andrea Ballatore, King’s College London, UK
• Henrikki Tenkanen, Aalto University, Finland
• Rafael H. M. Pereira, Institute for Applied Economic Research, Brazil
• Christoph Fink, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Vanessa Brum-Bastos, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Eun-Kyeong Kim, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg

Program committee

• Clio Andris, Georgia Tech
• Victoria Fast, University of Calgary
• Vanessa Frias-Martinez, University of Maryland
• Song Gao, University of Wisconsin
• Yingjie Hu, University at Buffalo
• Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Vienna
• Carsten Keßler, Bochum University of Applied Sciences
• Jed Long, Western University
• Trisalyn Nelson, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Avipsa Roy, University of California, Irvine
• Michael Szell, IT University of Copenhagen
• Martin Tomko, University of Melbourne
• Qunshan Zhao, University of Glasgow
• Rui Zhu, University of Bristol

Venue

The workshops will be held in Leeds, UK in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience '23)

Contact

All questions about submissions to the morning worshop (EASM) should be emailed to grant.mckenzie@mcgill.ca.  All questions about submissions to the afternoon workshop (OTESAMA) should be emailed to henrikki.tenkanen@aalto.fi.